AS YOU CAN SEE BY OUR WATER VAPOR SATELLITE PIX BELOW...THE MAIN STREAM OF MOISTURE COMING IN ACROSS CALIFORNIA AND HEADING EAST. FOR NOW THIS ZONE WILL BRING MOST OF THE NATION'S PRECIP FROM OUT WEST THRU THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF THE U.S.

WEATHER MAP TODAY SHOWS ALL OF THE LOW PRESSURE OUT WEST AND IT WILL RIDE EAST INTO THE CAROLINAS AND SOUTHEAST. ONCE AGAIN...SOME ICE AND SNOW WILL HIT THE SOUTHLAND. BELOW - MAP SHOWING WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES- NATION-WIDE.

BELOW...MAP SHOWING THURSDAY'S POTENTIAL STORM ALONG THE EAST COAST AS PROJECTED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CLEARLY SUCH A TRACK COULD BRING HEAVY SNOW TO NORTHEAST....BUT NOT ENTIRELY THAT EASY.

NOW BELOW...THE MODELS: FIRST AND MOST AGGRESSIVE...THE EUROPEAN. IT WILL INDICATE HEAVY SNOW/ ICE/ EVEN SOME RAIN.NEXT IN LINE WOULD BE THE UKMET....WHICH IS PROJECTING A SNOWSTORM.....THIRD....THE CANADIAN...HEAVY SNOW THEN ICE AND EVEN RAIN.

LASTLY...DON'T KNOW IF THE ANIMATION WILL WORK...BUT THE GFS PRECIP. FORECAST. IN ANY EVENT...ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH THURSDAY'S EAST COAST STORM IS THAT COLD AIR WILL BE MARGINAL. ANOTHER PROBLEM IF THAT NORTHEAST WINDS WILL BECOME CYCLONIC...SO COASTAL AREAS MAY BE INFLUENCED BY 40 DEGREE WATER TEMP. AS WITH ALL COASTAL STORMS...THE EXACT PATH - SPEED - INTENSITY ALL WEIGH IN ON THE OUTCOME. WHATEVER...THURSDAY WILL NOT BE NICE ALONG THE EAST COAST.MORE ON THIS AS WE GET CLOSER. LATER.